Dharma Hernandez Franklin accounts will not be active until Tuesday (5/9) or Wednesday (5/10)
Textbooks should arrive by
Teacher editions arrive with student editions
If they don’t arrive by then, they will not be delivered until principal returns
Novels! Three novels per student edition
Principal should receive an email later this month with ordering instructions (Around 5/15)
One time deal
Order your novels! You have a little under a year to place order.
Novels will not arrive at the school site (before or during Fall semester)
Trying to push teachers to come to the training
But, teachers WILL have access to digital platform
SCHOOLOGY
We will be put in publisher groups
Collections Schoology Group Code: 37CH2-6TDK5
We will be put in a group for Collections, for all HS teachers
Use RESOURCES tab
Contains instructions to sign on to HMH Dashboard: http://tinyurl.com/LAUSD-Collections
Additional resources will be added
HMH STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Materials: Student Edition
Close Reader (Consumable)
Performance Assessment (Consumable)
To practice writing in 3 steps
Up to us to blend writing assessment into larger program
Collection 1: Finding A Common Ground
Use Collection Opener as a hook
Collection Opener provides an image and a quote
Notice key links in Collection Opener
Stream to Start (No updates) hmhFyi.com (Updated monthly)
Channel One News (No updates)
Performance Task Preview— Allows us to jump to the end of unit assessment
Academic Vocabulary— Tier 2 vocabulary; not necessarily pulled from the texts in the collection
1st Text in Collection = Anchor Text
We practiced highlighting and taking notes
Explored the option of sending messages/notes to students
Audio (Audio plays one page at a time; hack: you can change page view to 2-page and audio will read TWO pages. WOW!)
Close Read button— models academic discourse
Resources — Includes close read screen casts and, more importantly, the close read application (a downloadable PDF, different from what appears in the Close Reading consumable that students use to take notes and answer questions as they read)
Each reading ends with a Collaborative Discussion question.
There is a skills focus in the back matter of each reading
Analyzing the Text questions follow the piece. And they’re GOOD.
Students can answer these questions online by clicking on the Q button in their student e-book.
Or you could upload the questions and have students answer in Schoology
Critical Vocabulary— allows students to practice vocabulary from the text
2nd Text in Collection = Companion Text (Only in Close Reader Consumable)
Work with this text can be done in consumable or in Student eBook
INTERACTIVE LESSONS
Designed to be a teaching tool
Not something you assign student to do by themselves
These are linked to the performance task at the end of each collection in textbook
We looked at STUDENT RESOURCES
If students write (or copy and paste) Performance Tasks into WRITE SMART they can use and we can use Turnitin.com
But only for the writing tasks in Collections
FYI Site
There are nonfiction resources for each collection in each grade level
FOR ARGUMENT’S SAKE
Updated each month
A question is posed to students across the nation and students are asked to vote
Archived questions (and resources) appear at the bottom of page
TEACHER eBOOK
Introduction —> Annotated Table of Contents
1st Text in Collection
PD resources are linked throughout Teacher eBook
Plan pages
English Language Support — Suggests strategies to use with EL's
Digital Overview — Previews media used throughout the unit
Teach and Practice —> Use this to help students focus as they read and annotate a text; each piece in the collection focuses on just 2-3 concepts and/or skills
Instructional Overview —> We can go hear to find daily learning objectives
Front matter —> Key learning objectives, text complexity rubric, text x-ray (helps guide students of different abilities)
Teach pages
Notice, in the margin of the reading, there is info related to the 2-3 concepts that appear in the Teach and Practice
This thread of concepts/skills runs throughout the reading
Hidden gem: click on the RESOURCES button —> Guiding Questions by Collection —> downloads as a Word file
TEACHER RESOURCES
CA Quick Start
CA Standards Support and Enrichment
Additional lessons (related to Common Core Standards) can be found here
Lessons for novels (that we choose to order) can be found under enrichment tab
Common Core Exemplar Lessons
Here’s another place where you can find exemplar lessons for texts like Joy Luck Club, etc.
English Workshop
Grammar resources
Family Resources
Includes letters introducing unit themes, vocabulary, etc. to parents
English only
Grammar Notes
Power Points related to grammar
Graphic Organizers for Reading
!!!!!!Guiding Questions by Collection!!!!!!
Level Up Tutorials
Can be used as a teaching tool or students can work on these to get extra practice
More Texts by Collections
Additional texts to use in each collection
NovelWise
Lesson plans for novels
Performance Assessment
Same consumable book that students receive
PROGRAM ASSESSMENTS
This is where you go to look at CAASP Practice Tests
HMH One Assessment
This is where you go to assign CAASP Practice Tests to students
!! There are practice CAASP tests for each grade level !!
forms.hmhco.com/sales/CATeach
Collections —> Program Introduction
This will get you to a video that reviews almost everything we did today
Collections —> Downloadable Aids —> Pacing Guides
This will get you to a pacing guide for the first collection (for each grade)
Collections —> Technology Support —> Cheat Sheet for High School
This will help you to remember where to find many of the resources we discussed today
Franklin accounts will not be active until Tuesday (5/9) or Wednesday (5/10)
Textbooks should arrive by
Teacher editions arrive with student editions
If they don’t arrive by then, they will not be delivered until principal returns
Novels! Three novels per student edition
Principal should receive an email later this month with ordering instructions (Around 5/15)
One time deal
Order your novels! You have a little under a year to place order.
Novels will not arrive at the school site (before or during Fall semester)
Trying to push teachers to come to the training
But, teachers WILL have access to digital platform
SCHOOLOGY
We will be put in publisher groups
Collections Schoology Group Code: 37CH2-6TDK5
We will be put in a group for Collections, for all HS teachers
Use RESOURCES tab
Contains instructions to sign on to HMH Dashboard: http://tinyurl.com/LAUSD-Collections
Additional resources will be added
HMH STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Materials: Student Edition
Close Reader (Consumable)
Performance Assessment (Consumable)
To practice writing in 3 steps
Up to us to blend writing assessment into larger program
Collection 1: Finding A Common Ground
Use Collection Opener as a hook
Collection Opener provides an image and a quote
Notice key links in Collection Opener
Stream to Start (No updates)
hmhFyi.com (Updated monthly)
Channel One News (No updates)
Performance Task Preview— Allows us to jump to the end of unit assessment
Academic Vocabulary— Tier 2 vocabulary; not necessarily pulled from the texts in the collection
1st Text in Collection = Anchor Text
We practiced highlighting and taking notes
Explored the option of sending messages/notes to students
Audio (Audio plays one page at a time; hack: you can change page view to 2-page and audio will read TWO pages. WOW!)
Close Read button— models academic discourse
Resources — Includes close read screen casts and, more importantly, the close read application (a downloadable PDF, different from what appears in the Close Reading consumable that students use to take notes and answer questions as they read)
Each reading ends with a Collaborative Discussion question.
There is a skills focus in the back matter of each reading
Analyzing the Text questions follow the piece. And they’re GOOD.
Students can answer these questions online by clicking on the Q button in their student e-book.
Or you could upload the questions and have students answer in Schoology
Critical Vocabulary— allows students to practice vocabulary from the text
2nd Text in Collection = Companion Text (Only in Close Reader Consumable)
Work with this text can be done in consumable or in Student eBook
INTERACTIVE LESSONS
Designed to be a teaching tool
Not something you assign student to do by themselves
These are linked to the performance task at the end of each collection in textbook
We looked at STUDENT RESOURCES
If students write (or copy and paste) Performance Tasks into WRITE SMART they can use and we can use Turnitin.com
But only for the writing tasks in Collections
FYI Site
There are nonfiction resources for each collection in each grade level
FOR ARGUMENT’S SAKE
Updated each month
A question is posed to students across the nation and students are asked to vote
Archived questions (and resources) appear at the bottom of page
TEACHER eBOOK
Introduction —> Annotated Table of Contents
1st Text in Collection
PD resources are linked throughout Teacher eBook
Plan pages
English Language Support — Suggests strategies to use with EL's
Digital Overview — Previews media used throughout the unit
Teach and Practice —> Use this to help students focus as they read and annotate a text; each piece in the collection focuses on just 2-3 concepts and/or skills
Instructional Overview —> We can go hear to find daily learning objectives
Front matter —> Key learning objectives, text complexity rubric, text x-ray (helps guide students of different abilities)
Teach pages
Notice, in the margin of the reading, there is info related to the 2-3 concepts that appear in the Teach and Practice
This thread of concepts/skills runs throughout the reading
Hidden gem: click on the RESOURCES button —> Guiding Questions by Collection —> downloads as a Word file
TEACHER RESOURCES
CA Quick Start
CA Standards Support and Enrichment
Additional lessons (related to Common Core Standards) can be found here
Lessons for novels (that we choose to order) can be found under enrichment tab
Common Core Exemplar Lessons
Here’s another place where you can find exemplar lessons for texts like Joy Luck Club, etc.
English Workshop
Grammar resources
Family Resources
Includes letters introducing unit themes, vocabulary, etc. to parents
English only
Grammar Notes
Power Points related to grammar
Graphic Organizers for Reading
!!!!!!Guiding Questions by Collection!!!!!!
Level Up Tutorials
Can be used as a teaching tool or students can work on these to get extra practice
More Texts by Collections
Additional texts to use in each collection
NovelWise
Lesson plans for novels
Performance Assessment
Same consumable book that students receive
PROGRAM ASSESSMENTS
This is where you go to look at CAASP Practice Tests
HMH One Assessment
This is where you go to assign CAASP Practice Tests to students
!! There are practice CAASP tests for each grade level !!
forms.hmhco.com/sales/CATeach
Collections —> Program Introduction
This will get you to a video that reviews almost everything we did today
Collections —> Downloadable Aids —> Pacing Guides
This will get you to a pacing guide for the first collection (for each grade)
Collections —> Technology Support —> Cheat Sheet for High School
This will help you to remember where to find many of the resources we discussed today